Climate change affects countries and people very differently. Although the countries of the Global South have contributed the least to climate change, it is those particularly vulnerable communities and countries that are particularly suffering from its destructive consequences. At the same time, representatives of the Global South are still not given enough space in
From 9th to 13th November, the 8th edition of the Greenmotions Film Festival took place at the municipal cinema at the Alter Wiehrebahnhof in Freiburg this year. We showed inspiring films covering different topics around sustainability, often accompanied by live discussions or video interviews with filmmakers, offered an exciting workshop and a delicious food-saving
This year our juries and the audience awarded 4 film prizes on Sunday 13.11.2022 at our award ceremony which followed our short film evening. Congratulations to Arjan Brentjes for the short film award for his animation "Sad Beauty". The short film can be viewed here. In addition, the short film "Das Kleinod" by Sarah
The 8th edition of the Greenmotions Film Festival takes place again from 09th until November 13th, 2022 in the Kommunales Kino in Freiburg im Breisgau (Alter Wiehrebahnhof). We will show all weekend long touching stories, innovative ideas and fascinating insights that are intended to contribute to a more conscious and sustainable life, both on
For the seventh time, the Greenmotions Film Festival in Freiburg invited to inspiring films, live discussions, video interviews with filmmakers, an exciting workshop and a delicious food-saving buffet. The municipal cinema at the Alter Wiehrebahnhof was the venue and accommodated 522 visitors over four days. We would like to thank all helpers, cooperation partners,
On Sunday, 14.11.2021 the Juries announced 3 film prizes for this year's Festival during the short film evening and award ceremony. For the prize winners will receive an amount of 1000€ each and also a trophy. The trophy is a small glass garden with plants from Tiny Gardens engraved with Greenmotions Filmfestival laurel. Congratulations
This year the Greenmotions Film Festival is setting a special example with the special topic “Our Water”. We think that the topic of water will bring great challenges for our society in the future! That is why we have announced a special prize for film submissions on this trend-setting topic. Our external jury viewed
We are very excited to share this year's program with you! After taking a year off, we will start the 7th edition of the Greenmotions Film Festival on 11 November 2021 with a colorful selection of various documentaries, feature films and short films about ecological topics. We are very much looking forward to presenting
Dear friends of the Greenmotions Film Festival, dear supporters, dear partner organizations, What a pity! We will unfortunately cancel the 7th Greenmotions Film Festival planned for November 2020 and postpone it until next year. Our mostly volunteer-based team creates this festival with passion and is ready to go to the capacity limits during "normal" years.
Together with the videoblog team of Haus des Engagements we decided to take the camera in our own hands more often and portray committed initiatives from Freiburg. In November 2019, the videoblog team visited our festival and took a look behind the scenes while filming the Greenmotions team in action. You can find all